Project title: Vegetation health monitoring under ongoing climate change using remote sensing
Registration number: č. 1049892019
Recipient: Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague
Provider: Norway Fund – Bilateral Fund
Principal investigator for the CULS: Mgr. Ing. Tomáš Klouček, Ph.D.
Name of the program: Programme „Environment, Ecosystems and Climate Change“
Abstract:
The monitoring of vegetation health and detection of vegetation stress is important for agricultural and forestry industries worldwide. As agricultural and forestry production is strongly influenced by ongoing climate change, it is important to understand the current trends as well as to continuously monitor future changes, both in natural vegetation and in managed environments. For example, vegetation in central Europe has recently been experiencing significant vegetation stress due to severe droughts, low soil moisture and pest infestations; also Norway, which has a colder climate than central Europe, has already had problems with vegetation stress caused by severe drought and by insects (birch moth). It is expected that this will become more frequent in the near future. For a systematic effort of dealing with the effect of climate change it is necessary to solve problems comprehensively worldwide, and not only at the national level. This is particularly true for global applicability of approaches based on remote sensing techniques, where the verification of developed methods in a different environment is strongly necessary. Therefore, connecting related researchers and research institutions across Europe and building a wide cooperation network are essential.